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Teaching with Google Classroom

By : Michael Zhang
Book Image

Teaching with Google Classroom

By: Michael Zhang

Overview of this book

Google Classroom helps teachers bring their work online. According to Google Trends, it’s already bigger than Moodle after barely a year in the wild. This book is a complete start-to-finish guide for teachers using Google Classroom for the first time. It explains what Google Classroom is, what it can do, how to set it up, and how to use it to enhance student learning while making your life as a teacher easier. It shows you how to place resources and activities online, gather assignments, and develop group and individual activities. It’s not just a manual, you’ll also discover inspiring, easy ways to put Google Classroom to work for you and your class.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Teaching with Google Classroom
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 7. Google Forms for Multiple Choice and Fill-in-the-blank Assignments

Now that we have explored how to grade written assignments using Doctopus and Goobric, the third-party app, Flubaroo will help grade multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and numeric questions. Before you can use Flubaroo, you will need to create the assignment and deploy it on Google Classroom. The Forms app of Google within the GAFE suite allows you to create online surveys, which you can use as assignments. Google Forms then outputs the values of the form into a Google Sheet, where the Google Sheet add-on, Flubaroo, then grades the assignment.

After using Google Forms and Flubaroo for assignments, you may decide to also use it for exams. However, while Google Forms provides a means for creating the assessment and Google Classroom allows you to easily distribute it to your students, there is no method to maintain the security of the assessment. Therefore, if you choose to use this tool for summative assessment,...